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Our physical world is fully inflicted with unhappy constraints, unsatisfaction and suffering (both human and animal). The only way to solve this problem, will be to transfer human (and animal)'s consciousness to an artificial virtual paradise (reality), and/or to an artificial brain (and body), so t...

If human brain's understanding (conscious understanding) is the result from brain processes of functionality isomorphic to Turing Machine, and Turing Machine can only be consistent or completed, but NOT both (Godel Incompleteness Theorem), then every conscious understanding must NOT be truth itself,...

My argument presumes the status before birth is equivalent to the status after death. I know someone may compare 'self (consciousness)' to an objective object (e.g. a chair, a computer, etc..), and argue that for the objective object, it did not exist before it was made, and it will not exist after ...

If reincarnation is true, then at first glance it seems logical for one's soul to be traced back to a previous 'life'. However, if further consider the soul can ‘split’ or ‘merge’ also, then ‘tracing’ back to one single previous identity will then become impossible. just imagine Soul A and B becomes...

Just an interesting assumption in succinct form I may like to share. Assume that Panpsychism or Functionalism is true, then please consider two identical functioning devices 1 and 2. Devices 1 carries with consciousness A and devices 2 carries with consciousness B respectively (from Panpsychism or F...

Though I'm not quite sure of your question, but from my understanding you may try to raise a philosophical issue called the 'Personal Identity Problem' as described in the following link: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/ I take this opportunity to share the issue in this forum b...

I am writing an article in thinking of, if the fundamental existence of consciousness is ontologically resided apart from the physical world, in what way may consciousness communicate to the physical world? https://zh.scribd.com/document/329710574/Dua Anyone who is interested may a take a look or g...

Here is my proposal of a new form of Modern Interactive Dualism that may help to provide a preliminary solution to the 'personal identity' problem and Binding Problem of Consciousness https://zh.scribd.com/document/329710574/Dua An additional short 'Section 14' has been added recently to tentatively...